Dr. Michaels is a Research Professor of
Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia and is the
Virginia State Climatologist. He received his A.B. and S.M.
degrees from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in
Ecological Climatology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
in 1979. Dr. Michaels has been President of the American
Association of State Climatologists and Program Chair of the
Applied Climatology Committee of the American Meteorological
Society. Dr. Michaels has published over 200 popular and
scientific articles on climate and its impact on society,
including two books, Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics
of Global Warming, published by Cato Books in 1992, and The
Satanic Gases, published by Cato Books in 2000. According to
the scientific magazine Nature, Dr. Michaels is the
United States' most popular speaker on the subject of global
warming.

Associate Editor: Dr. Robert E. Davis

Dr. Davis is an Associate Professor of
Climatology at the University of Virginia's Department of
Environmental Sciences. He earned a B.S. (cum laude) in
meteorology from Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in
climatology from the University of Delaware. His research
interests include the analysis of historical atmospheric
circulation variability, Atlantic coastal storms, and air
quality. Dr. Davis was a contributor to the 1995 IPCC report and
has testified on global climate change before the U.S. Congress.

Contributing
Editor:

Dr. Robert C. Balling, Jr.

Dr. Balling is the Director of the Laboratory of
Climatology at Arizona State University, and the author of The
Heated Debate: Greenhouse Predictions versus Climate Reality
and The Satanic Gases. Dr. Balling is one of the world's
most prolific contributors to the refereed scientific literature
on global warming, and has lectured around the planet on the
issue of climate change.

Past
Contributors:

Dr. Sallie Baliunas

Dr. Baliunas is a research scientist at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.
Dr. Baliunas is a leading researcher on the topic of solar
variability and its relation to climate change on the earth.

Dr. Willie Soon

Dr. Soon is a research scientist at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.
Dr. Soon has developed a climate model in order to test the
impacts of solar variability on the earth's climate systems.

Dr. Thomas Gale Moore

Dr. Moore, Senior Fellow at the Hoover
Institution, specializes in international trade, regulation, the
environment, and privatization. He has written on airline
deregulation, trucking regulation and deregulation, stock market
margins, minimum wages, energy policy, environmental policy and
privatization. Recently, he has been researching the economic
consequences of global warming, should it occur, and wrote a
book on the subject, entitled Climate of Fear: Why We
Shouldn't Worry about Global Warming, published in 1998 by
the Cato Institute.

Mark P. Mills

Physicist Mark Mills is a technology strategist,
energy consultant and president of the research-consulting firm
Mills McCarthy and Associates Inc.